1932

After a five-decade pursuit of the giant Atlantic bluefin, the dean of Provincetown tuna fishermen is calling it quits. Charlie Mayo's 38' mahogany Chantey III, which Charlie designed in the fifties, is for sale. With tuna bringing almost $4 a pound (and one can weigh up to 1200 pounds) competition has leaped. Charlie's dockage fee doubled in just one year, and Charlie is retiring reluctantly lest his way of life become even more uncertain.

While we job-hunted in the thirties, or plodded along on peanuts a week, Charlie was originating the sport of rod-and-reel fishing for tuna as an alternative to the harpoon. A later invention, long his closelyguarded secret: the "daisy chain," which attracted tuna by simulating schools of scared smaller fish. Charlie also collected marine data for a book on tuna by a scientist at Wood's Hole. Down the years he logged maybe 100,000 miles between Provincetown and the West Indies. His grand passion rubbed off on son "Stormy" (Dartmouth '65) in the form of whale research, with which Stormy entertained us enthusiastically at our 50th. A lifetime of marine achievement! Charlie, we envy you for exciting years of pursuing exactly what you wanted.

After our Nifty, Ben and Sally Drew Celebrated his new presidency at another reunion. Plane to Winnepeg. Trans-Canada choo-choo to Banff and Vancouver. On to Portland for a gala Fletcher family reunion. Thirty-five family members included Dr. William S. Fletcher '52 and Bradford Fletcher '76. Ben adds that Sally is making an excellent recovery from her stroke in August. Cheers!

The latest on Art Blais: after his hip operation an infection kept him hospitalized for a month. Then a long recuperation on crutches and a regimen of muscle-strengthening exercises. As you read this, Art is back home walking with a cane carefully.

Would you have guessed that President Hopkins appointed Dartmouth's first woman instructor? Mrs. Norman Hapgood came to teach Russian in 1918.

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